Re: 137GB HD limit?
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 03:53, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Is there a 137GB HD limit in linux kernel? It looks like I can only
> access about that much of 250GB SATA (Serial ATA drive).
>
> googled & searched lkml but found nothing conclusive, there are some
> emails about problems with 137+ GB HDs. Anybody knows what's going on?
>
> BTW this is on debian unstable with 2.4.21-ac4 kernel (that's the one
> that has SATA driver), MB is intel D865PERL, Maxtor SATA HD (250GTB).
>
> YABTW I checked the drive under windows and it seems to be working
> correctly (after I got SP1 for windows XP which has support for 137+ GB
> drives)
Parallel ATA drives plugged into ATA/133 controllers burst the 137GB
limit back around -18.
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